#scam post

Anyone, everyone, please beware! These are bots. And you can clearly see the random numbers.

I hope there is no one fell to this absurd scam.

SCAM POST ALERT!!

this user is a known scammer.

User only started posting in July

User reaching out directly to people who aren't mutuals for aid

Red flags:

They don’t follow you

There’s only a few posts on their tumblr

The oldest post is only a few days or weeks old

The notes of the pinned post reveal warnings that it’s a scam (or if the user has replies turned off)

Or the post says it has 4 replies, but you can only see 2 of them (meaning the scammer may have blocked people to hide warnings)

Their tumblr is only available in blog view on desktop (meaning you have to be logged in to see it, but people sometimes do this for privacy)

The images are stolen (you can sometimes figure this out by using google images to reverse search the pictures)

They might have copy-pasted word-for-word somebody’s real request for help, either from tumblr, facebook, or gofundme

Searching their username on tumblr reveals other asks identical to the one you received or you find posts warning about a scam

You send them a message asking for further proof or clarification, and instead of replying, they block you

Proof you could ask for could be a picture of their dog, since it’s often a dog, with a piece of paper where they’ve written the username of the person they’ve sent an ask to 

If tumblr’s search function doesn’t reveal anything about the user (check their paypal name and their tumblr user name), google might. (The quotation marks means google will give results that include those exact words.)

Examples of google searches:

“TheScammersUsername” “scam” “tumblr”

Recently over the past few weeks, I occasionally get asks for donations or sharing donation posts. While I'm happy to help, I begin to feel odd about some of these asks, especially if other users claim that they are scams in the notes.

The most recent one is this from @/superbpatrolprincess:

There were people in the search who tried investigating this user and other possible scammers who send these kinds of asks. The user @kyra45 had tried contacting them about the validity of their claims, along with the fact that the ask was suspiciously similar to another ask made by @/aniasiasstuff.

By a suggestion from another user, I tried contacting the user about their donation post. But they blocked me shortly after. The pinned donation post on their blog was posted on July 10th. I failed to get a screenshot of that before they blocked me, but the earliest post in the search for superbpatrolprincess was made on the same day that post was made where the scammer contacted another user through asks.

Update, I used my alt to find their blog, here's their post:

Due to this, I'm not going to share any future donation/mutual aid posts if the user sends me an ask and if their account was made very recently.

Wow this is the pushiest one of these scam asks ive ever recieved. "Im afraid I have to insist" my god. The nerve haha

WARNING: Adella Dominos/Dominos Della is a scammer. 

They have a pretty established history of lying/misrepresenting themselves as different people in need, and have been messaging folks on Tumblr to try and pressure people into sharing their donation posts. They will deliberately use inflammatory/upsetting images and scenarios (ie, parental death, animal abuse, homophobia and custody battles) to guilt and emotionally manipulate people into sharing and donating. DO NOT DONATE, just block and report them to Tumblr and Gofundme. Their current Tumblr URL is @peopwtasghd. Receipts:  https://scammercalloutblog.tumblr.com/post/658462173692100608/warning-this-gofundme-campaign-is-fake-dominos 

https://scammercalloutblog.tumblr.com/post/657576361070821376/warning-this-donation-post-is-fake-this-account

Looks like the Ray-Bans post is making the rounds again. Reminder that this is 100% a scam.